--- title: Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a lit… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it. Who acts: Father, valley, jungle, tiger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, valley, jungle, tiger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:1:52 # text = Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it. 1 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 below below ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 20 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 snarly snarly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 singsong singsong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 whine whine NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | past | Father | | | | | in the valley | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in valley=Theme | | 2 | **run down** | past | the valley | | | | | to a little river *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result | | 3 | **hear** | past | Father | the dry angry snarly singsong whine of a tiger | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whine=Stimulus | | 4 | **catch** | present · perfect · passive | | a tiger | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary nothing=Theme | | 5 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | all jungle | whine | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 7 | **whine** | | a tiger | | | | | | nom whine «communication intransitive»: of=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/53/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/)